projects/linux·commit b5b60fda

perf session: Make events_stats u64 to avoid overflow on 32-bit arches

b5b60fda · Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> · 2009-12-18 13:03:03 -02:00

Pekka Enberg reported weird percentages in perf report. It
turns out we are overflowing a 32-bit variables in struct
events_stats on 32-bit architectures.

Before:

 [acme@ana linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report -i pekka.perf.data 2> /dev/null | head -10
   281.96%       Xorg                        b710a561  [.] 0x000000b710a561
   140.15%       Xorg  [kernel]                        [k] __initramfs_end
    51.56%   metacity  libgobject-2.0.so.0.2000.1      [.] 0x00000000026e46
    35.12%  evolution  libcairo.so.2.10800.6           [.] 0x000000000203bd
    33.84%   metacity  libpthread-2.9.so               [.] 0x00000000007a3d

After:

 [acme@ana linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report -i pekka.perf.data 2> /dev/null | head -10
    30.04%       Xorg                       b710a561   [.] 0x000000b710a561
    14.93%       Xorg  [kernel]                        [k] __initramfs_end
     5.49%   metacity  libgobject-2.0.so.0.2000.1      [.] 0x00000000026e46
     3.74%  evolution  libcairo.so.2.10800.6           [.] 0x000000000203bd
     3.61%   metacity  libpthread-2.9.so               [.] 0x00000000007a3d

Reported-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Commit
b5b60fda1e462a849bc37dfbace2888191be82cc
Parents
99e8c5a3

Changes

2 files changed · +3 −3

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tools/perf/builtin-report.cmodified+1−1View file
tools/perf/util/event.hmodified+2−2View file

tools/perf/builtin-report.c

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diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index e50a6b1..5c2ab53 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ static int __cmd_report(void)
perf_session__collapse_resort(session);
perf_session__output_resort(session, session->events_stats.total);
- fprintf(stdout, "# Samples: %ld\n#\n", session->events_stats.total);
+ fprintf(stdout, "# Samples: %Ld\n#\n", session->events_stats.total);
perf_session__fprintf_hists(session, NULL, false, stdout);
if (sort_order == default_sort_order &&
parent_pattern == default_parent_pattern)

tools/perf/util/event.h

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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.h b/tools/perf/util/event.h
index 8027309..690a96d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.h
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ typedef union event_union {
} event_t;
struct events_stats {
- unsigned long total;
- unsigned long lost;
+ u64 total;
+ u64 lost;
};
void event__print_totals(void);